Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper are identified for his or her hilarious — and generally unhinged — antics throughout CNN’s stay New 12 months’s Eve broadcast.
Cohen grew to become Cooper’s cohost in 2017 when he changed Kathy Griffin. Nevertheless, the pair have identified one another for many years after first crossing paths when their pals tried to set them up on a blind date within the early ‘90s.
“We had a cellphone name to arrange the date, and I knew inside 45 seconds I used to be by no means occurring a date with Andy Cohen,” Cooper instructed Jimmy Fallon throughout a 2017 look on The Tonight Present, noting that he canceled their date. “He violated my cardinal rule, which is he requested me about my mother [Gloria Vanderbilt] inside the first minute of speaking to me.”
Cohen, for his half, stated he was “excited” about their cellphone name, including, “I wished up to now the Vanderbilt boy!”
Whereas their romantic setup by no means panned out, they ended up changing into shut pals after touring collectively all through the early 2000s with a bunch of mutual pals. They each have enormous careers and have grown households of their very own. Cohen is a father to son Ben and daughter Lucy whereas Cooper coparents his sons, Wyatt and Sebastian, along with his pal and former accomplice Benjamin Maisani.
Cohen and Cooper’s real-life friendship interprets on digicam, and viewers eagerly tune in yearly to look at the duo. They’ve made headlines through the years due to their alcohol consumption all through the evening, which has introduced combined reactions from followers.
CNN banned their correspondents from ingesting whereas ringing in 2023, and Cohen begged the community to reverse the choice heading into 2024.
“Hopefully, I cannot be sneaking it,” Cohen stated at BravoCon in November 2023. “I haven’t heard something but, however come on, they should allow us to drink. It’s New 12 months’s Eve. That didn’t go nicely final yr by way of viewer happiness about us ingesting. Individuals actually cared and I hope CNN offers the individuals what they need.”
Preserve studying to see Cohen and Cooper’s funniest NYE moments:
Cooper Recounts Saucy Story About Gloria Vanderbilt
Throughout the 2019 broadcast, Cooper tried Jägermeister for the primary time earlier than telling a hilarious story about his late mom.
When Vanderbilt appeared on Watch What Occurs Reside to advertise her 2017 ebook, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mom and Son on Life, Love, and Loss, there was one query she was anxious host Cohen would ask.
“She turns to me out of the blue and goes, ‘He’s not going to ask me who has the largest c–okay in Hollywood, is he?’” Cooper recalled through the broadcast.
Cohen Suggests They Drop Acid
Snoop Dogg appeared through the 2020-2021 present and Cooper couldn’t cease laughing about all of the locations the rapper had smoked marijuana.
“Have you ever ever completed acid?” Cohen requested Cooper, who exclaimed that he had by no means tried the drug. The Bravo star stated, “Nicely, it’s time. We’re doing it tonight.”
Cohen’s Ryan Seacrest Diss
“Should you look behind me, you’ll see Ryan Seacrest’s group of losers performing. I’m sorry, however if you happen to’re watching ABC, you’re watching nothing,” Cohen stated through the 2021 broadcast about Seacrest, who hosts Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve.
Cohen later stated on Sirius XM’s Andy Cohen Reside that he “regretted” dissing Seacrest’s particular, calling him a “nice man.”
Cohen’s Well-known ‘Sayonara, Sucka!’
Whereas on the brink of ring in 2022, Cohen took two photographs of alcohol earlier than taking a couple of photographs at former mayor Invoice de Blasio.
“Watching Mayor de Blasio do his ‘victory lap dance’ after 4 years of the crappiest time period because the mayor of New York, the one factor that Democrats and Republicans can agree on is what a horrible mayor he has been. So, sayonara sucka!” Cohen stated. “2022, it’s a brand new yr, as a result of, guess what? I’ve a sense I’m gonna be standing proper right here subsequent yr and you already know what I’m not gonna be taking a look at? Dancing as the town comes aside.”
Cohen Calls Cooper a ‘Nepo Child’
After Cooper jokingly stated the Vanderbilt “fortune was misplaced way back,” Cohen quipped, “Take a look at this little nepo child! He’s so candy.”